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The U.S. cyber security agency said on Wednesday that a cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, although it has released some additional details.
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The hacking campaign, which used the American technology company SolarWinds as a springboard to penetrate federal government networks, was “impacting business networks in federal, state and local governments, as well as in critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations” , the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said in a statement posted on its website.
CISA said last week that U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities and private groups were among those affected, but did not specifically mention state or local agencies. So far, only a handful of federal government agencies have officially confirmed that they have been affected, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Energy.
| Ticker | Safety | Last | change | Change % |
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| SWI | SOLARWINDS CORPORATION | 16.01 | +0.12 | + 0.76% |
CISA did not identify the affected state or local agencies and did not immediately return an email requesting additional details about the notice.
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Reuters had previously reported that Pima County, Arizona, was among the victims of the wave of intrusions.
The county did not immediately return a message asking for comment on Wednesday. The county’s chief information officer previously told Reuters that his team took the SolarWinds software offline immediately after the hack went public and that investigators found no evidence of an additional compromise.
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US officials and lawmakers have claimed that Russia is to blame for the wave of hackers, an accusation the Kremlin denies.
(Reporting by Raphael Satter; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Raju Gopalakrishnan)